The information presented here is derived from a database of all 7,994 dental surgeries that provide NHS services to patients or offer a mixture of NHS and private care in England and the point location of those which could be accurately geo-referenced. It shows the static point locations of dental surgeries which were operating in December 2006.

It is important to note that the data provide information about the location of individual dental surgeries and not a count of NHS dentists or dental staff operating in England. There may be more than one dental surgery operating within a practice. Please note that dental services provided in hospitals (e.g. some orthodontics), mobile dentistry services and premises that wholly provide private dentistry (and not NHS) are excluded from this dataset.